Ninow, who is not a Stanford student, was arrested in Mountain View on Wednesday, June 24, on an arrest warrant. He was booked into the Santa Clara County Main Jail for one count of felony vandalism, one count of misdemeanor vandalism and one count of a misdemeanor hate crime. He is to be arraigned Thursday afternoon, June 25.

The April 26 incident left the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and Casa Italiana, a nearby Italian language- and culture-focused house, tagged with swastikas and "anarchy symbols" in gold spray paint.

Stanford President John Hennessy condemned the vandalism shortly after it was discovered.

"This level of incivility has no place at Stanford," Hennessy said in a statement. "I ask everyone in the university community to stand together against intolerance and hate, and to affirm our commitment to a campus community where discourse is civil, where we value differences, and where every individual is respected."

Posted by Agenda
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Jun 25, 2015 at 7:43 pm

Alex-- perhaps you should read the original story or this story. The accused perp painted swastikas on a number of buildings. This has nothing to do with Israel. And Israel is not murderimg civilians. Unfortunately, in the Bay Area, criticism of Israel has degenerated into anti-Semitic comments and actions (BDS)

Posted by Kazu
a resident of Downtown North
on Jun 26, 2015 at 12:01 am

"@ Kazu - How about Apartheid Week?"

That is anti-Zionism. Sure, anti-Zionism can be motivated by anti-Semitism, but at its core the Israeli-Palestinian thing is a turf battle. It is not about race, and the "Zionism is racism" argument is patently absurd. The apartheid regime in South Africa, on the other hand, was very much about race. If Berkeley does allow anti-Semitism to go unpunished, then shame on them indeed.

It sounds like the tagger was merely someone with an acute misunderstanding of geopolitics, a great lack of common sense and logic, with some unreasoning hatred thrown in for good measure. Don't you think UC Berkeley would have responded in the same way had the graffiti been done on their campus? Not a rhetorical question, by the way.